There was a best room, a living room that primarily was used
for special events and where in my youth a great-aunt of our "lived".
At that time you had not many retirement homes, old people lived with family.
The big smoke chair, in which she always sat in the front room is next to the
stove. If you look at the “wallpaper”
with the drawn roses, you see I'd never heard of miniature wallpaper before
;)!!

The up room was the bedroom of my grandparents, there was
not much furniture: wardrobe with bed linen, a short narrow bed (in earlier
times, people were much shorter than now) and a chair. That chair was so placed
just below the small window that looked out onto the part. At some nights my
Grandpa was standing on that chair in his bedroom to look into the stable,
whether a cow (who was pregnant) went calves. Very clever invented!

The "up room" was a bedroom, which had a raised
floor, because under the floor of this room the cellar was built. In this
cellar was the storage for fresh food, like meat of their own cattle, the vegetables,
fresh or conserved in glass jars, fresh fruits from their orchard, smoked and
dried meats like sausages, potatoes from their own kitchen garden etc. The door
to this cellar was in the corridor under the stairs. Of course I don’t have pictures
of this cellar, it isn’t built, because it is not visible.

In the hallway was a long runner made ​​of coco fiber (the
cocos fiber, which burned the skin off your knees when you fell on that carpet
and I often did in my rush L)
and there also were a barometer, clothes brush and a coat rack for coats of the
visitors.

The last room was a bedroom for the great-aunt, but after
she died my parents slept there during the holidays on the farm. The furniture
was a bed, a wardrobe, a chair and a wooden table with ewer and basin.

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Oh, it is really beautiful Ilona and so well made. I love that you captured all the detail of the real farm house with the up-bedroom etc. Sounds like you had a great time there as a child, except for the knees of course!

This is simply breathtaking... a memory brought to life in 3 D! You've done an amazing job (okay, what else to expect from you, but this is absolutely stunning). It's really living history - I hope you'll show us part two very soon!